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Oro blanco: assembling extractivism in the lithium triangle
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DOI：10.1080/03066150.2022.2080061.png)
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Abstract
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As the drive for global electrification proceeds, new pressures are placed on agrarian environments in areas abundant in key minerals for electric batteries. The so-called lithium triangle between Chile, Argentina and Bolivia is one of those places. We develop an account of the 'assemblages of extractivism' at work in this zone that operate at a material, institutional and discursive level. Drawing on fieldwork from the region and conceptualized using different strands of political ecology and political economy, we explore how the construction of a commodity, the materiality of lithium and the role of the state intersect with local understandings and engagements with this latest form of 'renewable extractivism'.
Keywords:
Lithium
extractivism
political economy
political ecology
decolonization
transitions